Chapter Seventeen: The Fly on the Grass

  On the beach, two people chased and played, Zhao Xuejiao's laughter echoed far away!

  "Alright, stop it!" Zhang Heng stopped and waved his hand at Zhao Xue. Zhao Xue blinked her eyes and slowly walked towards Zhang Heng: "No way, you've already hit someone's butt several times, so you must let them kick your butt too, or else this matter won't be settled today!"

  Zhao Xue couldn't even hit him, and instead let Zhang Heng gain an advantage!

  With a red face and refusing to give in, who made Zhang Heng hit someone's butt?

  "Aren't you supposed to be learning martial arts?" Zhang Heng smiled and took out his killer move.

  As expected, Zhao Xue stopped and looked at him: "Are you going to teach me martial arts? Can others also become a 'Gu Wu' master?"

  "I don't know if you can become a master of ancient martial arts. Anyway, practice well and with your current physical condition, those dozens or hundreds of ordinary thugs are definitely no match for you!" Zhang Heng shook his head and said, he still hasn't seen what a real master of ancient martial arts looks like, who knows how formidable they are.

  "Can you beat up over a hundred little thugs?" Zhao Xue stood there, counting on her fingers. "That's also considered very capable of fighting, right? Tony Jia in Fist of Fury could probably only take down that many too."

  Zhang Heng rolled his eyes, one is a movie and the other is reality, are they comparable?

  "So are you going to study or not?"

  "Study!" Zhao Xue suddenly put on a serious face, nodded solemnly and said: "From now on, I will uphold justice, help the weak, rob the rich to aid the poor, and take it upon myself to maintain world peace!

  "Idiot!"

  Zhang Heng turned his head and was about to leave, still taking it upon himself to maintain world peace. Do you really think you're the protagonist? Besides, we're living in a "harmonious" society now, little monsters have become an endangered species, and are being protected by countries everywhere. How can you just go around killing them at will?

  "Hey, don't go!"

  Zhao Xue quickly ran up, pulled Zhang Heng back, stuck out her tongue and said with a smile: "I was just talking nonsense! I'm not an international police officer, the heavy responsibility of maintaining world peace is still better left to others!"

  "What's the point of learning martial arts then?" Zhang Heng stopped and asked back with a smile.

  "Beat the hooligan!" Zhao Xueqiao's face turned red for a moment.

  Zhang Heng thought for a moment and said, "I currently have three martial arts secret books in my hand. One is knife method, one is fist method, and the other is light work. The knife method and fist method are both biased towards being strong and fierce, which doesn't suit you to learn. How about I teach you light work?"

  "Qinggong?" Zhao Xue tilted her head, biting her finger as she thought for a moment: "Is that the kind of qinggong that can fly over eaves and walk on walls, leaving no tracks in the snow?"

  "I don't know!" Zhang Heng shook his head with a bitter smile: "I've never practiced qinggong either, I don't know if it can fly over eaves and walk on walls, or leave no footprints in the snow!"

  "You haven't even practiced before?" Zhao Xue's small face immediately fell, and she thought to herself that this pervert was actually thinking of using her as a test subject!

  "Is there a problem? If you have a problem, you can choose not to practice!" Zhang Heng smiled. He wasn't begging Xiaoniang to practice after all. Even if it was just a yellow-grade 'Martial Technique', that would still be worth 18,000 gold coins! If taken to the real world, it would be something people would go crazy for. And yet, Xiaoniang didn't know what was good for her and was being picky!

  If it weren't for what happened earlier this morning when he touched her butt several times, Zhang Heng would have turned around and left already!

  "No problem!" Zhao Xue puffed out her cheeks. In her heart, she collectively greeted Zhang Heng's family members, thinking to herself: "Just you wait and see, when I become more powerful than you, I'll teach you a lesson! How dare you touch my butt? When the time comes, I'll chop off your paw, let's see if you still dare to have evil intentions!"

  Zhang Heng took out the secret book "Cao Shang Fei" from the storage ring and threw it to Zhao Xue. As for the martial skills in the game space, he didn't know if others could practice them in reality except himself, so he simply treated this little girl as a test product. If she can learn it naturally, that would be great; if not, then... think of another way!

  "Is this a Wulin secret manual?" Zhao Xue's eyes widened in surprise, curiously asking: "Just now I clearly saw that there was nothing in your hand. Where did you take it out from?"

  "Top state secret!" Zhang Heng shook his head with a stern face.

  Zhao Xue rolled her eyes and muttered under her breath, "Still a national secret, what a big face!" As she spoke, she lowered her head and opened the secret recipe.

  Zhang Heng saw clearly that at the moment Zhao Xue opened the secret book, a yellow light flew straight into Xiaoniang's forehead!

  "Do you have any feelings?" Zhang Heng's heart moved and he couldn't help but ask.

  Zhao Xue raised her head, looking at him with a puzzled expression, and said: "What kind of feeling is this? A secret recipe? I haven't even seen it yet!"

  "Didn't you just see a flash of yellow light?"

  "What yellow light? I didn't see any, move aside! I need to go back and study the secret recipe!" Zhao Xue pushed Zhang Heng away, swaying her hips as she walked towards the villa, her face filled with excitement.

  Zhang Heng sank into thought for a moment. Zhao Xue probably wouldn't deceive herself, and earlier she might have really not seen the yellow light that flew into her forehead, perhaps others couldn't see it except for himself!

  "Has he learned it?" Zhang Heng muttered to himself.

  All day, Zhao Xue was in the living room, holding onto that secret manual of "Flying on Grass", and didn't let go. She even didn't record the theme song for "New World"!

  "Ah-Dai, how's the download going now?" Zhang Heng asked Ah-Dai as he sat in front of the computer.

  Ah-Dai smiled sweetly and said: "The global download volume exceeds 5 million, of which the Chinese mainland has downloaded over 1.2 million, Japan has downloaded over 900,000, and the total download volume in Asia is over 2 million! The majority of other downloads are from the United States and Europe!"

  "So many!" Zhang Heng was stunned for a moment, finding it hard to believe.

  "Hmm, this is just the beginning. According to 'A Dumb' calculations, the global total downloads will exceed 800 million! Because 'New World' is too 'well-made', so small yet playable, and can still connect online, how can it not be chased by players?!"

  "800 million? Is that even possible?" Zhang Heng furrowed his brow, probably no game would have that many users, and if all 800 million users were online at the same time, what kind of server would be needed? "Is our server storage enough?"

  "No problem, the Star River plan can extract one-thousandth of the capacity from each player's storage space, which is enough to support the entire game's operation, and there will be a lot left over!" Ah-Dai said with a nod. After thinking for a moment, he added: "However, I found many loopholes and shortcomings in this game."

  How good can a game be if it was written by one person in two days with just one software?

  Bugs and shortcomings will never be less. At first, Zhang Heng just took 'New World' as a practice work. Now facing the '800 million' user group raised by Ah Diao, Zhang Heng has to weigh it carefully.

  At that time, Zhang Heng's idea was to combine the 'community model' with 'online games'. In fact, this idea is not particularly new and has been thought of by others.

  Now he's thinking about how to improve the 'New World'!

  He said that the 'Star River' plan is 500 years more advanced than the current 'Cloud Plan' used on Earth, so he doesn't need to worry about servers and equipment at all. In other words, as long as the 'software' is good, the hardware can be played by players or those manufacturers first. The storage capacity of one-thousandth of a hard disk will not have any impact on users' computers, tablets, and mobile phones!